Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-2658 - Path Traversal vulnerability in ZNC
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in ZNC before 0.072 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted DCC SEND request.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 13 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Relative Path Traversal An attacker exploits a weakness in input validation on the target by supplying a specially constructed path utilizing dot and slash characters for the purpose of obtaining access to arbitrary files or resources. An attacker modifies a known path on the target in order to reach material that is not available through intended channels. These attacks normally involve adding additional path separators (/ or \) and/or dots (.), or encodings thereof, in various combinations in order to reach parent directories or entirely separate trees of the target's directory structure.
- Directory Traversal An attacker with access to file system resources, either directly or via application logic, will use various file path specification or navigation mechanisms such as ".." in path strings and absolute paths to extend their range of access to inappropriate areas of the file system. The attacker attempts to either explore the file system for recon purposes or access directories and files that are intended to be restricted from their access. Exploring the file system can be achieved through constructing paths presented to directory listing programs, such as "ls" and 'dir', or through specially crafted programs that attempt to explore the file system. The attacker engaging in this type of activity is searching for information that can be used later in a more exploitive attack. Access to restricted directories or files can be achieved through modification of path references utilized by system applications.
- File System Function Injection, Content Based An attack of this type exploits the host's trust in executing remote content including binary files. The files are poisoned with a malicious payload (targeting the file systems accessible by the target software) by the attacker and may be passed through standard channels such as via email, and standard web content like PDF and multimedia files. The attacker exploits known vulnerabilities or handling routines in the target processes. Vulnerabilities of this type have been found in a wide variety of commercial applications from Microsoft Office to Adobe Acrobat and Apple Safari web browser. When the attacker knows the standard handling routines and can identify vulnerabilities and entry points they can be exploited by otherwise seemingly normal content. Once the attack is executed, the attackers' program can access relative directories such as C:\Program Files or other standard system directories to launch further attacks. In a worst case scenario, these programs are combined with other propagation logic and work as a virus.
- Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic This attack targets the encoding of the URL combined with the encoding of the slash characters. An attacker can take advantage of the multiple way of encoding an URL and abuse the interpretation of the URL. An URL may contain special character that need special syntax handling in order to be interpreted. Special characters are represented using a percentage character followed by two digits representing the octet code of the original character (%HEX-CODE). For instance US-ASCII space character would be represented with %20. This is often referred as escaped ending or percent-encoding. Since the server decodes the URL from the requests, it may restrict the access to some URL paths by validating and filtering out the URL requests it received. An attacker will try to craft an URL with a sequence of special characters which once interpreted by the server will be equivalent to a forbidden URL. It can be difficult to protect against this attack since the URL can contain other format of encoding such as UTF-8 encoding, Unicode-encoding, etc.
- Manipulating Input to File System Calls An attacker manipulates inputs to the target software which the target software passes to file system calls in the OS. The goal is to gain access to, and perhaps modify, areas of the file system that the target software did not intend to be accessible.
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-1848.NASL description It was discovered that znc, an IRC proxy, did not properly process certain DCC requests, allowing attackers to upload arbitrary files. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 44713 published 2010-02-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44713 title Debian DSA-1848-1 : znc - directory traversal code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1848. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(44713); script_version("1.10"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:22"); script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2658"); script_bugtraq_id(35757); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1848"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1848-1 : znc - directory traversal"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that znc, an IRC proxy, did not properly process certain DCC requests, allowing attackers to upload arbitrary files." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537977" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1848" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the znc package. For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.045-3+etch3. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.058-2+lenny3." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_cwe_id(22); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:znc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/08/02"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/02/24"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"znc", reference:"0.045-3+etch3")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"znc", reference:"0.058-2+lenny3")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200909-17.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200909-17 (ZNC: Directory traversal) The vendor reported a directory traversal vulnerability when processing DCC SEND requests. Impact : A remote, authenticated user could send a specially crafted DCC SEND request to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running ZNC, and possibly cause the execution of arbitrary code e.g. by uploading a malicious ZNC module. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40964 published 2009-09-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40964 title GLSA-200909-17 : ZNC: Directory traversal code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200909-17. # # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. # and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike # license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(40964); script_version("1.13"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:45"); script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2658"); script_bugtraq_id(35757); script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"200909-17"); script_name(english:"GLSA-200909-17 : ZNC: Directory traversal"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200909-17 (ZNC: Directory traversal) The vendor reported a directory traversal vulnerability when processing DCC SEND requests. Impact : A remote, authenticated user could send a specially crafted DCC SEND request to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running ZNC, and possibly cause the execution of arbitrary code e.g. by uploading a malicious ZNC module. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200909-17" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "All ZNC users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-irc/znc-0.074'" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_cwe_id(22); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:znc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/09/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/09/14"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("qpkg.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (qpkg_check(package:"net-irc/znc", unaffected:make_list("ge 0.074"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 0.074"))) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = qpkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "ZNC"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2009-7937.NASL description No CVE yet, one has been requested. Upgrade to 0.072 of ZNC, fixes security issue in bug 513152 An users data directory traversal flaw was found in the way ZNC used to handle file upload requests via Direct Client Connection (DCC) /dcc SEND messages. A remote IRC user could issue a /dcc SEND message with a specially crafted content (file to upload), which once accepted by a local, unsuspecting ZNC user, would overwrite relevant files in the users/<user>/downloads data directory. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40356 published 2009-07-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40356 title Fedora 10 : znc-0.072-3.fc10 (2009-7937)
References
- http://en.znc.in/w/index.php?title=ZNC&oldid=3209#WARNING
- http://en.znc.in/wiki/ChangeLog/0.072
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35916
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1848
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/5
- http://znc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/znc?view=rev&sortby=rev&sortdir=down&revision=1570
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00965.html